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Award winning author’s haunting short story burning to be brought to the stage.
FLICKING THE FLINT
Written by Anna Krien
Created by Kate Lee
Metro Arts, The Independents 2010
WED 10 – SAT 27 MARCH
Brisbane-based performance maker, Kate Lee (HIGHGATE HILL) has teamed with acclaimed new literary voice, Anna Krien (MELBOURNE) to adapt her confronting and thrilling short story FLICKING THE FLINT for the stage from 10th to 27th March as part of Metro Arts’ ‘The Independents 2010’.
FLICKING THE FLINT joins the increasing rise in book-to-stage adaptations across Australia.
Winner of the Australian Press Council Award 1997, Krien is a prolific writer who has been published in an array of national publications from The Age to Frankie Magazine.
Krien is extremely candid about why she writes. “If I want to write something, I’ll write it,” Krien says. “Not because I want to sell it. But because I want to write it.”
Bookseller by day, Kate Lee breathes life into stories on stage by night.
Lee chose to adapt Krien’s confronting short story to come alive on stage “…for its strong imagery, its subtly, humor and darkness”, says Lee.
Kate Lee and her young creative team have moulded FLICKING THE FLINT into a confronting performance that delves into the depths of an institutionalised young man’s torrid past of abuse at the hands of his father, and his addiction to lighting fires.
After featuring at Adelaide Fringe 2010, FLICKING THE FLINT will confront Brisbane audiences with Krien’s passionate, yet disturbing story.
FLICKING THE FLINT unravels the broken memories of a disturbed and dangerous young man, played uniquely by both Tom McCosker (SOUTH BRISBANE) and Jackon O’Sullivan (FAIRFIELD). He is the disturbing manifestation of a lifetime of abuse - calculating, cold, cynical and at times violent and vicious.
Composer Bernard Houston (MOUNT GRAVATT) has created an original electronic music score to be performed live on stage. The epic soundscape is “uncomfortable and replicates the tension of a swelling fire and the intensity of un-expressible emotions”, says Lee, working alongside the performances to put the audience in a place they might not want to be.
WHAT: FLICKING THE FLINT
EXHIBITION DATES: WED 10 – SAT 27 MARCH
OFFICIAL OPENING: WED 10 MARCH @ 6:30PM
WHERE: METRO ARTS :: SUE BENNER THEATRE :: 109 Edward St, Brisbane
INFO + BOOKINGS: 07 + 3002 7100 :: www.metroarts.com.au |
